Baptist Church, North Side of High Street

Baptist Church, North Side of High Street

The Baptist Chapel on the north side of the High Street in Newburgh was built in the early 1880s. It replaced an earlier chapel on a wynd on the south side of the same street. The funds for the new building were largely raised by James W. Wood, who was chairman of Tayside Floorcloth Company. Around this time several Baptists (including Wood) were influential on the Newburgh town council. The Baptists seem to have had a presence in Newburgh beyond the official membership of their church. In the early 1900s the pastor noted that while the Newburgh Baptist Church had about thirty ‘regular adherents’ (presumably people who could be relied upon to attend Sunday services), the ‘average attendance’ at their Wednesday evening prayer meeting was forty people, and that between forty and fifty also attended their ‘class’ (possibly a reference to some form of Sunday school). An active Baptist congregation continued in Newburgh into the early twenty-first century. However, in the 2010s the church closed. The former Baptist church has since been converted into a house.

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1880

Bess Rhodes

Site

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T.A. McQuiston and R.F. Conway, A Short Historical Outline of Newburgh Baptist Church (1920). Planning Application to Fife Council for Newburgh Baptist Church (2017). Archived at: https://www.tellmescotland.gov.uk/notices/fife/planning/00000139209 [Accessed 10 November 2021].

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Baptist Church, North Side of High Street

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Building

515

2010

Baptist

Newburgh